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i 5mm 1 @emita @anni H. UHR-Y, OF N EWYORK,'N. Y.

i 13mm Patent No. 88,995, dated April 13,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN STAIR-RQDS.

The Schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and maklng part of the sama.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, H. UHRY, of the city of New York, in the county of New York, and State of `New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsrin the Manufacture of StairRods; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to stair-rods madefof wood, hard rubber, metal, or any other material; and

It consists in the combination therewith of a metallic cap, forming part of the fastening, in which the rod maybe turned at pleasure, whereby the rods are easily prevented from taking a set, or becoming bent.

In my drawings- Figure l represents a front view of the end of one of my improved stair-rods.

Figure 2 is a transversal section of the same.

Figure 3 is alongitudinal section ofthe same through its centre.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of the cap B before it is put on the end of the rod, and

Figure 5 is a front view of the end of the rod, hefore the cap B is pnt on.

A is the stair-rod, which may be made of wood, of hardened rubber, papier-mache?, metal, 85o., and which, in main shape, may be made either of a round, or of a polygonal cross-section; but whatever may be the shape adopted for the rod, both ends have to be turned or shaped so as to present the cylindrical part a, and the circular groove, or depression g, and a hole, rr, is to be drilled in both ends of the rod, as shown in fig. 3 of my drawings.

B is a cap, of cylindrical .lshape, fitting easily over the part a of the rod, and having, at the centre of its closed bottom, a" hole, S, corresponding in size and place to the hole fr of the rod'A.

The cap B has also an oblong hole, or slot, D, punched on one of its sides, of the proper size to allow of the screw-eye T passing through.

This cap B is slipped upon the end of the rod A,

and the edge Vis slightly turned inwardly into the grooved part g, so that although. the cap B may be turned freely upon the rod A, it cannot be taken out ordrop off from the same.

P is an oruamented headed pin, which is to be passed through the hole S of the cap B, and penetrate in the hole r of the rod A, as secu in my drawings.

T is a screw-eye, to be .screwed into the riser of .the staircase, and through the loop of which the pin P passes, to fasten the rod A thereto.

To put my stair-rod in place the screw-eyes T are first screwed on each side of the carpet, at the proper distance one from the other. The rod is stepped over so that the rings, or eyes of the screw-eyes T enter the lslotted holes D in the caps B, and the pin P being introduced in the hole S and pushed therein through the eye ofthe screw-eye T, and into the hole r of the rod A When the rod, by some cause or other,` becomes bent, or is scratched on one side, it may beturned half a turn round, when it will be, as it is said, on its sti" set, and will hold the carpet perfectly tight.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letterslatent of the United States, is-

The improved stair-rod A, having its end-caps B 'fastened thereto, and yet capable of beingturned freely thereon, as described, in combination with the screw. eyes T, and pins P, constructed and arranged as shown and described, and for lthe purpose herein set forth.

H. UHRY. [1.. 8.]

Witnesses:

H. GENGEMBRE HUBERT,

JONA BELL. 

